Michelle Chihara
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Los Angeles since 2003. Media Studies, Critical Finance; power ballads; history of this wild city Find me at michellechihara.com
Here's the link: harpers.org/archive/2025...
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The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz
Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation
harpers.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Here's the link: harpers.org/archive/2025...
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It goes on..."But it’s hard not to see goonerism as just an intensification, almost a burlesque, of prevailing cultural trends. ...What do these companies care? They’ve won. If they have their way—and they usually do—in time we will all be gooners, of a kind."
Oof. Everybody plz touch grass 4/
Oof. Everybody plz touch grass 4/
November 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
It goes on..."But it’s hard not to see goonerism as just an intensification, almost a burlesque, of prevailing cultural trends. ...What do these companies care? They’ve won. If they have their way—and they usually do—in time we will all be gooners, of a kind."
Oof. Everybody plz touch grass 4/
Oof. Everybody plz touch grass 4/
...other-directed pleasures for the comfort of staring at screens alone. Does any of this sound familiar? Do you maybe know some folks who get up to stuff like this? It’s true that gooners are masturbating while they engage in these behaviors. You could say that only makes them more honest. 3/
November 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
...other-directed pleasures for the comfort of staring at screens alone. Does any of this sound familiar? Do you maybe know some folks who get up to stuff like this? It’s true that gooners are masturbating while they engage in these behaviors. You could say that only makes them more honest. 3/
Parasocially fixating on microcelebrities who want their money. Broadcasting their love for those microcelebrities in public forums. Conducting bizarre self-experiments because someone on the internet told them to. In general, abjuring connective, ...2/
November 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Parasocially fixating on microcelebrities who want their money. Broadcasting their love for those microcelebrities in public forums. Conducting bizarre self-experiments because someone on the internet told them to. In general, abjuring connective, ...2/
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meanwhile ...
*This* is how the left should be talking about Mamdani's fiscal prospects & challenges. Rather than reify private market prices while fetishizing liberal budget-balancing, Weber challenges the political composition of pricing in the first place. Bravo!
Zohran Mamdani shows how Democrats can defeat authoritarians like Trump | Isabella Weber
Democrats have two choices: fight to make life affordable again for ordinary people or watch voters embrace authoritarians
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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abundance bros be like: “When I tell you about rental prices it’s behavioral economics, when you speak out about rent it’s affordability politics”
November 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
abundance bros be like: “When I tell you about rental prices it’s behavioral economics, when you speak out about rent it’s affordability politics”
Ooo-stealing this! 🙏
November 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Ooo-stealing this! 🙏
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A few signs from he No Kings rally in CLT…
October 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
A few signs from he No Kings rally in CLT…